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Piece Description
If you’re shopping this holiday season for a friend or relative who is blind, things like a flat screen TV or digital camera are probably not on the top of your list, but there are other items – like talking scales, scanners and games that could be just the thing for a person who has limited vision.
Philip Graitcer checked out some of these high tech holiday gift items.
Broadcast History
WABE (Atlanta), December 19, 2008
Transcript
SLUG: HOLIDAY SHOPPING FOR THE BLIND
Philip L. Graitcer
If you’re shopping this holiday season for a friend or relative who is blind, things like a flat screen TV or digital camera are probably not on the top of your list, but there are other items – like talking scales, scanners and games that could be just the thing for a person who has limited vision.
Philip Graitcer checked out some of these high tech holiday gift items.
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Even though it’s cloudy outside, Desiree Reed is wearing a pair of s tinted sunglasses. She’s been blind nine years, and says that her blindness makes it difficult for others to find Christmas gifts for her.
T40 00:17 They don’t know what to get me. They'll give me different things like clothes or perfume or something like that, but they don’t really know what tools I need as a blind person.
Reed, who’s 21, had a rare brain tumor that cause...
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INTRO:If you’re shopping this holiday season for a friend or relative who is blind, things like a flat screen TV or digital camera are probably not on the top of your list, but there are other items – like talking scales, scanners and games that could be just the thing for a person who has limited vision.
Philip Graitcer [GREAT - sir] checked out some of these high tech holiday gift items.
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